Introducing Stany Nyandwi, JGI Uganda’s new Education Assistant.

Please join us in welcoming Stany Nyandwi our new Education Assistant who is now working under the Environmental Education and Roots & Shoots program undertaking extension services at our field sites with focus on Human Wildlife Conflict in communities and schools in Western Uganda.

Stany comes from Burundi and has over 30 years experience working with chimpanzees both in captive and wild as well as other wildlife for various wildlife conservation Organizations such as the Entebbe Zoo in Uganda, Chimp Trust/Ngamba Island Sanctuary in Uganda, Chimpanzee Sanctuary Sweet waters in Kenya, Chester Zoo in UK, German Zoo Institute in German, Taronga Zoo in Australia, Chimp Haven in USA, Disney World in USA and many others.

At JGI Uganda, his key responsibilities include; carrying out school and community sensitization about human-wildlife coexistence, conducting Chimpanzee behavior education and outreach in schools and communities and conducting pre and post evaluation of the knowledge, attitude and consequent behavior toward chimpanzee conservation and their habitat, assisting in documenting success stories regarding human-chimp coexistence in the Budongo-Bugoma Corridor, assisting in developing Chimpanzee education and awareness materials for schools and communities and engaging school children and community members in practical environmental conservation activities such as tree nursery bed preparation, seedling raising, tree planting, hygiene and sanitation activities among others.

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the Jane Goodall Institute Uganda in partnership with Eco-Trust and Chimp Trust is implementing an 18 months project in Uganda’s Albertine region in specific Masindi district. Project Goal. The project aims to enhance community resilience to losses from wildlife incursions through the development of local and regional compensation schemes that is anchored on a community-driven […]

The Green Lung Forest Restoration (GLF) Project was a six (6) months project from July 2016 to January 2017. The GLF project was implemented in six parishes within Hoima District in Western Uganda with the purpose of enhancing the resilience of forest adjacent communities and protective ecosystems through community-led adaptation interventions focusing on riparian forest afforestation […]

JGI focuses its main education programs around Kibale, Budongo, Bugoma and the Kalinzu/Kasyoha- Kitomi forests areas, where awareness of chimpanzees and the environment can best help protect viable chimpanzee populations. Within these areas, JGI Uganda has established an effective Environmental Education (EE) programme at the primary school level. The various elements of this programme focus […]

The project is providing an opportunity for community members in Masindi and Bushenyi districts through teachers and pupils to learn more about the forest environment, its importance and what people can do to help protect it. Specific Goals of the Project. • To equip at least 30 teachers from 30 schools in two districts with […]

The project was implemented by the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) – Uganda with funding from JGI – Austria in Cooperation with the Austrian Public Campaign “Mother Earth” Project Lifespan. The Forest Corridor Project (FCP) was implemented for one-year (January – December, 2015) and it targeted over 3,500 community members in seven (7) villages in Buseruka [...]

Our Philosophy: Is based on the belief that “every individual matters, every individual has a role to play and every individual makes a difference.” Dr. Jane Goodall founded Roots & Shoots in 1991 an environmental and humanitarian programme of the Jane Goodall Institute. The program’s mission to foster respect and compassion for all living things, [...]